RE: Ftrace Timer on OMAP3

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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 20:49:07, Thomas Klute wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> we're having some trouble getting useful results from Ftrace on OMAP3
> (Gumstix Overo). As you can see in the example output below, function
> duration can't be displayed with a precision higher than about 30.5 us,
> which matches the frequency of the 32 kHz platform timer. For OMAP1,
> using OMAP_MPU_TIMER instead of CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER should provide
> better results [1], but I couldn't find anything similar for OMAP3. Just
> setting CONFIG_OMAP_32K_TIMER=N didn't change the results. Did I miss
> anything, or isn't there any more precise timer?
> 

I believe you are using mainline kernel here, if yes, you should be enabling 
the dmtimer using commandline argument, "clocksource="gp_timer".

Thanks,
Vaibhav

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